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The Parole Preparation Project helps incarcerated people envision a better tomorrow
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(Living)
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There’s a lot of talk these days about defunding the police. But what’s being done to reform criminal justice in the stages of the incarceration process after arrest and prosecution?
One organization ...
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Created on 13 January 2021
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Week of Women: The Chicks, Tei Shi, En Vogue
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(Entertainment)
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... a new single, “Care,” out now.
BOOKS
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Christine Montross, M.D.
Dr. Christine Montross, a psychiatrist, delves into the human cost ...
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Created on 16 July 2020
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Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Abolition
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(Feminism)
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... a set of statistics on race, gender, and incarceration that expose the ways in which women and members of the LGBTQ+ community are treated within the prison system, with a particular focus on the ways ...
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Created on 16 July 2020
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Chrystul Kizer, A Teenager Sentenced For Killing Her Alleged Trafficker, Is Out Of Jail On A $400,000 Bond
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(General)
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... forced her into prostitution, according to NPR.
Brown-Long was released from prison late last year after serving 15 years following public outcry that her imprisonment was “unreasonable incarceration ...
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Created on 26 June 2020
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Don’t Understand #DefundThePolice? Here Are 8 Online Activists and Resources That Might Help
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(Feminism)
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... addiction services, or even after-school programs could better aid. Because of this, society has seen far more excessive force and police brutality and far more incarceration than it ever should have. ...
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Created on 12 June 2020
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Week Of Women: Black Lives Matter
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(Entertainment)
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... bookstores, here’s what BUST is reading, watching, and listening to this week.
MOVIES/TV
13th
Ava DuVernay’s award-winning 2016 documentary examines mass incarceration in America and addresse ...
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Created on 04 June 2020
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Remember: Queer Black Womxn Paved The Way For LGBTQ+ Rights
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(Feminism)
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... ; a black trans woman and activist for trans rights, lead groups that advocated for trans women and often spoke out about the prision system, saying it contributes to the incarceration of trans poc specifical ...
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Created on 01 June 2020
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The Woman Behind "Reviving Ophelia" Reflects On Teen Girls' Mental Health, Then & Now
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(Feminism)
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... Illustrated By Dorota Liwacz
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2019 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today!
More from BUST
The Rate Of Women's Incarcerati ...
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Created on 24 September 2019
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A Ugandan Feminist Wrote A Poem About A Vagina, Then She Was Arrested
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(Feminism)
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CNN published a piece detailing the trial as part of their As Equals series, dedicated to investigating gender inequality. Here’s what they found.
Stella Nyanzi was a well-known feminist and activist ...
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Created on 09 July 2019
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Woman Who Was Shackled During Labor Earns $610,000 from City of New York
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(Feminism)
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A Bronx woman, Jane Doe, had been arrested “in Bronx County Family Court for violating an order of protection that was part of a child custody dispute with her former partner” CNN reports. However, ...
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Created on 09 July 2019
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Tiffany Cabán, A 31-Year Old Queer Latina, Claims Historic Primary Win for Queens District Attorney
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(Feminism)
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... against mass incarceration. She aims to increase community engagement with her office, and to use prosecutorial discretion to not charge people based on laws deemed as racist. Another big goal of Cabán ...
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Created on 26 June 2019
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12 Women and Non-Binary Asian Americans You Should Know About
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(Feminism)
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... s freed from her 16-year long incarceration. In 2017 she faced the threat of deportation to a country she had never even lived in, as she was born in Thai refugee camp after her mother had fled genoci ...
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Created on 31 May 2019
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Chelsea Manning Jailed Again
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(Feminism)
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... experience I already endured for a year in prison before. Only a few months before re-incarceration, I received gender confirmation surgery. This left my body vulnerable to injury and infection, leading ...
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Created on 20 May 2019
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This Woman Was Forced To Give Birth Alone In Jail Cell
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(General)
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... demanded a review of detention policies and reported that employees of the jail and medical personnel were well aware that Jackson was at full-term and close to her due date upon initial incarceration. ...
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Created on 10 May 2019
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Week Of Women: May 10-16, 2019
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(Entertainment)
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... full list below.
MOVIES/TV
Charlie Says
Directed by Mary Harron and starring Suki Waterhouse, Merritt Wever, and more, Charlie Saysfollows the “Manson girls” during their incarceration. Out Ma ...
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Created on 09 May 2019
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SNL Proves We All Need To Pay Attention To Elizabeth Warren
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(TV)
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... rd in wrongful conviction cases, which poses the question: if elected, what will she do to help mass incarceration?
None of the Democratic presidential candidates are perfect, but perhaps we should n ...
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Created on 06 May 2019
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A Men's Prison Group In California Is Learning About bell hooks
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(Feminism)
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... and We Real Cool. Richie, who has since been released, had been involved in intersectional feminist activism before his incarceration, training with Patrisse Cullors, an activist noted for her work with the ...
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Created on 11 April 2019
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How Filmmaker Tamara Perkins Helps Men On Parole Tell Their Stories
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(Movies)
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... the hard questions needed to spark comprehensive discourse around mass incarceration in America. Questions about recidivism and redemption and how to build better community support systems. That is, until ...
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Created on 04 April 2019
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Sex Work In New York State Might Be Decriminalized—Here's What You Should Know
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(Feminism)
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... they have three goals: “to decriminalize sex trade-related offenses in New York and pass legislation that protects people in the sex trade; to end the incarceration of sex workers and vacate criminal records ...
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Created on 28 March 2019
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Elise Hooper's New Novel Tells The Story Of Photographer Dorothea Lange: Interview
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(Books)
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... who captured iconic images of the Great Depression and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. After meeting at a writers’ party, Elise and I spoke over the phone from our homes in ...
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Created on 08 February 2019
